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Faculty and Staff Photograph Collection, 1896-1979

Overview of the Collection

Title
Faculty and Staff Photograph Collection
Dates
1896-1979 (inclusive)
1925-1965 (bulk)
Quantity
0.35 cubic foot, including 467 photographs, (3 boxes, including 1 oversize box)
Collection Number
P 046
Summary
The Faculty and Staff Photograph Collection consists primarily of individual portraits and group photographs of faculty and staff employed by Oregon State University.
Repository
Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Languages
English
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Content Description

The Faculty and Staff Photograph Collection consists primarily of individual portraits and group photographs of faculty and staff employed by Oregon State University. Most of the portraits are small photograph prints that were removed from original employment applications submitted in the 1930s through 1950s; many of these were taken by Hise Studio in Corvallis. Other photographs in the collection depict individuals with a close relationship to Oregon State, including Oregon governors and members of the Oregon Agricultural College Board of Regents. Most of the individuals are identified. Some of the images depict faculty or staff in laboratories, offices, or outdoors.

Of special note are several late 1890s and early 1900s images of bicyclists, including two images of four Oregon Agricultural College faculty who bicycled from California to Oregon in the summer of 1896.

Several images from the collection are available online in the Best of the Archives digital collection. The collection includes photographs by Hise Studio, R.W. Henderson, as well as other photographers in Oregon and elsewhere in the United States. Most of the photographs are individually numbered (P046:001 thru P046:435). Six unidentified images are not individually numbered.

The collection consists primarily of b/w prints (424), but also includes 28 film negatives, 10 nitrate negatives, 4 color prints, and 1 color slide.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

Faculty and Staff Photograph Collection (P 046), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The collection consists of one series: I. Faculty and Staff Photographs, 1896-1979.

Acquisition Information

Most of the photographs were acquired by the Archives in the 1960s and 1970s.

Related Materials

Many other photographs of Oregon State faculty and staff members are part of the News and Communications Services (P 057), President's Office (P 092), Communication Media Center (P 119), and Extension and Experiment Station Communications (P 120) Photographs as well as Harriet's Collection and many other collections in the Archives' holdings. The Robert W. Henderson Papers and Photographs (P 098) include the bulk of the photographs taken by Henderson during his Oregon State years.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Finding aid prepared by Lawrence A. Landis; updated by Elizabeth Nielsen.
2010

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